The Royal Mail Redirect is a valuable and convenient service that protects consumers when they move home. But as CIFAS and Experian both highlighted this week, Identity Theft victims are at real risk from "current" and "forwarding" address fraud. This is where criminals use fraudulent postal redirections to either gain access to the victims post at their current address or use a false new address claiming the victim has recently moved home.
Garlik's DataPatrol service offers the UK consumer unique day to day protection against this type of fraud. DataPatrol continually monitors the consumer’s home address and alerts them if or when a Royal Mail redirect is set up on it. As well as being alerted, the consumer is also given clear, simple advice on what immediate action to take if they are at all unsure about the postal redirection they have been alerted to.
UK residents can find out more or sign up at https://www.garlik.com/dpindividuals.php. Garlik's DataPatrol service is also available from our partners CPP and Sky.
About Garlik
Garlik, the online identity expert, was founded by Mike Harris, founding CEO of Egg plc, former Egg CIO Tom Ilube and former British Computer Society president Professor Nigel Shadbolt. As the first company to develop a web-scale commercial application of semantic technology, Garlik enables consumers to find and understand what personal information is in the public domain about them and manage how their identities appear online.
Garlik has appointed a panel of world-class ID protection and technology experts to advise the business including Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE from the University of Southampton and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web. In January 2008, Garlik was selected as a World Economic Forum, Davos, Technology Pioneer and in December 2008 it won the British Computer Society BT Flagship for Innovation Award.
Garlik is backed by three of the UK’s leading blue chip investment firms, DFJ Esprit, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and Noble Venture Finance.
For further information please contact:
Victoria Melville
Melville Communications
+44 (0)1483 489009/07974 161 123
Victoria@melvillecommunications.co.uk
- Victoria Melville 16-10-2009
Garlik's DataPatrol service offers the UK consumer unique day to day protection against this type of fraud. DataPatrol continually monitors the consumer’s home address and alerts them if or when a Royal Mail redirect is set up on it. As well as being alerted, the consumer is also given clear, simple advice on what immediate action to take if they are at all unsure about the postal redirection they have been alerted to.
UK residents can find out more or sign up at https://www.garlik.com/dpindividuals.php. Garlik's DataPatrol service is also available from our partners CPP and Sky.
About Garlik
Garlik, the online identity expert, was founded by Mike Harris, founding CEO of Egg plc, former Egg CIO Tom Ilube and former British Computer Society president Professor Nigel Shadbolt. As the first company to develop a web-scale commercial application of semantic technology, Garlik enables consumers to find and understand what personal information is in the public domain about them and manage how their identities appear online.
Garlik has appointed a panel of world-class ID protection and technology experts to advise the business including Professor Dame Wendy Hall DBE from the University of Southampton and Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web. In January 2008, Garlik was selected as a World Economic Forum, Davos, Technology Pioneer and in December 2008 it won the British Computer Society BT Flagship for Innovation Award.
Garlik is backed by three of the UK’s leading blue chip investment firms, DFJ Esprit, Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and Noble Venture Finance.
For further information please contact:
Victoria Melville
Melville Communications
+44 (0)1483 489009/07974 161 123
Victoria@melvillecommunications.co.uk
- Victoria Melville 16-10-2009